The Gatehouse website record for Cudworth Moat

In the civil parish of Cudworth. In the historic county of Somerset (Modern Authority of Somerset, 1974 county of Somerset).

Medieval moated site, two fishponds and associated earthworks at Knight House Farm. The moated site includes a sub-circular central platform 50m across elevated above the surrounding ground level. It is enclosed by a moat with an average depth of 5.5m and an average width of 5m across the base and an external bank on the west, south and south east sides rising to 5m above the base of the moat. Also included in the monument and probably contemporary with the moated site, are two rectangular fishponds, aligned north to south. The more substantial fishpond is located south of the smaller one and west of the moat. It appears as a depression 52m long and by 38m wide and is up to 5m deep below a surrounding bank which survives up to 10m wide on the east and up to 16m wide on the north where a break in the bank links it to the bank on the south west corner of the smaller fishpond. Subsidiary earthworks survive adjacent to the south and east bank of the larger fishpond which may represent part of the original water management system. The second fishpond is 13m wide, 56m long, and survives as a depression up to 1 metre deep. Matthew de Esse held this manor in 1303 and it has been recorded that in 1333 a licence was granted for an oratory within his widow's house which documentary evidence suggests was located in the area of the moated site, although this has no visible surviving features.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is ST37271080

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 191730
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is 53829 'grey' literature, such as watching brief reports, held by H.E.R.s is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded in this website.

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